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...concrete level, the plot introduces Mauro Ponticelli (Michael Piccoli), and his sister Marta (Anouk Aimee). The former is a magistrate, the latter a lunatic. At first the separation is quite clear. Save for the disturbances created by his sister. Ponticelli is almost fanatically calm, all that a middle-aged magistrate should be. Aimee's Marta, by contrast, seems in each well-groomed motion to bristle with exposed nerve-endings...
...cries, how can I laugh?" muses Mauro. "After her menopause, maybe." The brother's and sister's confrontations are at once amusing and pathetic in their pettiness. In one scene, as Mauro types. Marta in the kitchen drums her fingers to the rhythm of the keys. Little by little her motions become agitated, then furious, as she takes a slab of frozen beef and hammers it against the counter in senseless anger...
...Mauro does not remain impervious. "If only the insane would keep quiet," he sighs, repeatedly overhearing the muffled curses that stream through Marta's door. Doors and locks soon emerge as a motif--Mauro is endlessly closing doors, turning the key in the four locks of his front door, inspecting the locks on telephones. The physical boundaries manifest his compulsion to separate all that is sane from the insane, the acceptable from the shocking, and the inside from the outside...
MEANWHILE, the movie drifts toward abstraction. The director leads Mauro through surreal landscapes to emphasize the psychological confusion--buildings, yards, and even acquaintances are presented in a manner so stylized that mere vestiges of reality remain. It drifts further: Battalions of ghost-like children in night-gowns prance beneath the ancestral portraits of the venerable Ponticelli apartment. A frosty window frames a child, wild-eyed, endlessly hammering discords out of a tinny piano...
...league scoring table. Princeton's Yun Fishman tops the list...For his play against Dartmouth two weeks ago, Coogan was named an Ivy Star of the Week by Ivy Sports Magazine.... Senior halfback Mike Mogollon, limited in recent games by a nagging ankle injury, plays more and more like Mauro Keller-Sarmiento in every match...